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Mythmaster Central

An Introduction To Mythmastery

I've never been particularly impressed with Myth films. I
used to save hundreds of them myself after winning a battle with 60% damage
or something equally impressive. The problem was out of those hundreds of
saved films I only got around to watching about two of them.

-Joshstar

This site was devised to yield a set of excellent solo films that are fun
to watch and demonstrate superior playing. The Mythmaster is the ultimate
Myth solo player. The Seven Laws of the Mythmaster are derived
from the Marathon Vidmasters'
Challenge, an ongoing contest of skill for players of Bungie's previous
series, Marathon.

In the manual of the first Marathon game, it is said that to be a truely
great Marathon player you must learn to "vid", or to look up and down. (This
ability was a new feature when Marathon was released). Thus, truely great
Marathon players became known as "vid-masters". In 1995, Bungie co-founder
Jason Jones issued the Vid-Masters' Challenge on the UseNet newsgroup
comp.sys.mac.games.action.
This challenge was to complete all 25 solo levels using the command-option-New
Game feature, which allowed you to start any level from scratch, but with
only one pistol, three clips, 1x health, your fists, and whatever sparse
tools of destruction you could find on the level. Thus, the Vidmasters' Challenge
was born.

In the second Marathon game, the command-option-New Game screen gained a
new list of rules which one had to follow in order to qualify as a Vidmaster.
People began compiling film archives of them vidding various levels in both
games. Soon after the third Marathon was released, the
Marathon Vidmasters' Page
went online, centralizing the efforts of Vidmasters around the world.

Now, ever since Myth first came out, I've been trying to get a Myth Vidmasters'
Page going online. What you see here, Mythmaster Central, is the fruitition
of my dream, and the continuation of a Bungie tradition. -Forrest

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